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Pakistan plan which they dubbed as Palidistan. 159 In 1940, an Ahrar leader, Maulvi Daud Ghaznavi announced the decision of the Ahrar to 'merge with the Hindu Congress and pursue their goal of opposing the creation of the Islamic state of Pakistan which they described as a vivisection of the country. ' ' 160. The Ahrar's hatred for the concept of Pakistan led it to hold the. Muslim leadership striving for a seperate homeland for the Muslims of the Indo-Pak sub continent in extreme contempt. Maulvi Mazhar Ali for instance ridiculed the Quaid e Azam with the contemptuous couplet: 'Ik kafira ke waste Islam ko choora,. Yeh Quaid e Azam hai,. Keh hai kafar e Azam. . For the love of an infidel he deserted Islam. Is he the greatest leader or the greatest infidel. 161. The mullah continued to entertain the same views even after the creation of Pakistan and after the death of the Quaid e Azam in 1953, he had the audacity to assert that he still held the same view. 162. The Ahrar leadership kept itself completely aloof from the direct action which the Muslim League started in the Punjab. 163 In a statement issued from Amritsar on 19th September, 1945 Maulvi Mazhar Ali Azhar of the Ahrar declared that the Muslim League's slogan of Pakistan was a stunt and the Jamaat ul Ahrar e Islam refused to recognise the leadership of the. Quaid e Azam or the Muslim League as the representatives of the Muslims. 164. Ata Ullah Allah Shah Bukhari denounced the leaders of the Muslim. League as irreligious and insisted that they were not only leading themselves but the Ummah unto eternal destruction with their attempt to create not a Pakistan but a khakistan. 165. He also asserted that "no mother had yet given birth to a child who could even make the 'P' of 'Pakistan' a reality"166 and many of his colleagues in 159. Ibid: pg 11 162. Ibid: pg 11 160. Ibid: pg 12 163. Ibid: pg12 165. Milap of Lahore: December 27, 1945 166. Daily Jadid Nizam of 1950: Istiqlal Number 161. Ibid: pg 11 164. Ibid: pg 256 80